Whoa the mercedesbenz winter event is back and you wont want to stop for anything else. [ barks ] ho lease the cla250 for 329 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. Now wusa9 sports with Frank Hanrahan brought to you by xfinity. The redskins gave us nothing today in new jersey. As fans we have expect from this team and that does not sit well. Redskins close out the season bad, 1810 loss at the bad new york giants. Redskins really no pride to show for especially on the offensive end. All eyes were on kirk cousins and how he would do in possibly his last game as a redskins quarterback, not too well besides this quarterback keeper for a touchdown. Watch out, tommy. Kirk threw three picks and, of course, hes the best thing the redskins have had in that position consistently in some time, but his time here may be done. We have to have stability in that position somehow, some way. Not everybody has it, just the way it is in pro football nowadays, but if you got one, you like to keep one. Well have to make that decision pretty soon or kirk will, also. Its not totally up to us because kirk has to buy in, also. Definitely want kirk back. Thats an elite quarterback in this league. Hes our elite quarterback. Hopefully we can get him back, but, you know, the business is the business. Its all about winning. Its all about winning and thats certainly where everyones focus is from the owner to the general manager to head coach to the team to the fan base. We all just want to win. In baltimore theyre thinking hey, were going to the playoffs, right . But cincinnati has other ideas. 4th and 12 this touchdown throw from andy dalton from 49 yards out and that sends baltimore home, no playoffs. Dramatic fashion lifting the Buffalo Bills getting in with the ravens loss going to the playoffs for the First Time Since 1999 and you got to check out bills fans in miami. They hang out to see the ravens ending and they go crazy. Watch out. The guy holding the camera, he cant contain himself. Hes going crazy, too. Watch out now. Im sorry im making you dizzy. Congratulations debra, for the first time we talked to you we were inside the torpedo center. Were outside now, but people are snuggley getting warm. You folks decided to come out despite the cold. Why was that . We just moved here. So we wanted to see the fireworks down here in alexandria. Reporter were asking folks if you were to sum up 2017 with one word, what would you pick . A lot of change. Reporter a lot of change. Thats not one word. What about one word for 2018 . More change. Reporter still not one word, but were still having a good time here. All of us at channel 9 wish you a safe and happy new year from our family to yours. In alexandria tonight, stephanie ramirez, wusa9. I love them and theyre getting ready to count down to the new year. One last shout out to fabian who is celebrating a birthday, weve got 30 seconds left. Lets talk about how cold it gets. Change. Change in the weather, change maybe to the redskins. Were watching a coastal low. Otherwise just bundle up this week. Its going to stay cold. Oh, my. Wed like to wish you all a happy 2018 well leave you with more video from some of the celebrations around the world. Happy new year, everyone [music] the james brown show is brought to you by geico. At the age of six, todays guest dreamed he would be playing for the dallas cowboys. Unlikely, you say . He was drafted by dallas in 1990. Then, the rookie set a goal passing Walter Payton, of all people. The nfls alltime rushing leader are youed 125 yards a game for 13 years. Impossible . It was, but he did that, too, while breaking many other records as well. Folks, its my pleasure to welcome one of the greatest running backs in nfl history, the hall of famer, mr. Emmitt smith and still the nfls alltime rushing leader. Please tell me you had no idea that was going to be the case. Well, i wish i could say i had no idea. I always had a dream and a goal of making it happen. The reality is you have to go through the process in order to get it done. So, believing that it can happen, yes. Will it happen . Dont know. Thats part of the process, part of the process of life. You want to achieve certain things, you have to set a goal. Im glad it did happen. Dreams and goals seem to define you. I dont know all that well, but certainly those play prominent roles in everything youve done. Talk, first of all, about the family life and when dreaming and goal setting became so important to you. Well, i would just say my mom and dad, mary and emmitt. My mom tried to instill in all of her kids that you could achieve anything you want in life if you work hard and are willing to pay the price for it. Its okay if you dont achieve it. If you get close enough to it and you feel some kind of satisfaction or some kind of reward because you worked hard to get there, you know you need to work harder to make sure you actually obtain the goal and perhaps go through and set another level. Early on, can you remember some of the early goals youet in junior high and high school . I needed to get out of my hometown. No disrespect. Out of pensacola, why . Everybody that i saw around my that left, when they came back home, they were driving nice things. They were living in nice houses and so forth. I felt like in order to be successful, you need to look beyond your current circumstances. Knowing that living in a 3600 square foot home, which is much different than the home i grew up in, just to grow and allow my wings to spread. In order to do it, i felt like i needed to get outside of pensacola to make that happen. What did it look like for you . As a youngster, were you thinking business . Academics . When did football come into the picture . Football was the first thing i ended up doing. I found out i was pretty good at it. When i started playing at t i started playing quarterback wearing number 12. Hold tight. You were playing quarterback. How good were you . I never threw a pass. Take the handoff and take off running. Being able to run the football and having that confidence at a very early age that i could play this game tim time, could you play at the High School Level and compete and still be effective . What did you realize about yourself as a player then . Did you have strength . Did you have power . Did you have speed . What did you recognize as a skill . At that early age, i had a combination of everything, speed, power, vision, agility, the ability to make people miss. I was pretty creative as a runner. And so, seeing the things i saw watching jim brown, Walter Payton, Eric Dickerson or anyone, watching guys run and somewhat emulating their style. Seeing things on the football field, angles thats coming at me and avoiding those things and figuring out how to beat someone in a football situation, all of that was happening in my behind as i was playing the game. Emmitt smith not only watched, but he applied. Well find out more and how he did it after today. Portions of the james brown show are brought to you by geico. 15 minutes could save you 15 or more on car insurance. Visit [music] heres what a College Recruiting expert said about emmitt smith. He is a looker, not a runner. He is not bad. He cant get around a corner. When he falls flat on his face, remember where you heard it first. Holy cow. So, emmitt, i ask you before, did you realize the limitations you had as a Football Player . No. I didnt. People had more limitations on me than i did on myself. Others. Others had more limitations than i did. I go back to what my mom said. You can achieve anything in life if you really put your mind, heart and soul its just a matter of mental toughness. Mind over matter. If you dont mind, it dont matter. You have to do what you have to do. As a running back, you have to produce positive yardage and create the right distance for the coordinators to call great plays. If you do that on a consistent basis, then you are allowed to get the ball more than two or three times a game. So, help me draw this point out, emmitt. How fast were you in the 100 whether it was a dash or meters . How fast . Well, two different things. Go ahead. A dash, i think the fastest i got was probably 10. 3, 10. 4. Meters, the fastest was 10. 5. Put that into perspective. Is that fast . Not in florida. Its dead last in texas as well. You didnt let that affect you. Football is not a track. Ate not a track sport. Football is a football sport. You have to have the ability, agility. You have to have these other attributes. You have to be able to see things and process things quickly its one thing to get out of the starting line and run to the end when there is nothing in front of you. Its another thing to run in the backfield when you have 10 or 12 guys in front of you and you have to zigzag and make them miss. Track is when you can get out and run freely. Football, you cant run as freely as track. I have to keep from laughing. Its so true. I worked with your coach Jimmy Johnson when i was at fox. I asked him, why emmitt smith . He said, when i looked at him and what he did in college, clearly, was superior. I went back further. School. He was a winner. I went back further. I went back to pop warner. The man won everyplace he was. Thats why i wanted emmitt smith. I appreciate it. Thats someone that recognizes a Football Player. To me, there is a difference between a statistical player and a Football Player. Statistical player versus a Football Player. You can have someone produce all kinds of stats. Run this, field like that, have these sizes and everything that fits the criteria of a professional typical player. You can have someone like antwan bolton. He doesnt fit that mold, but he knows what to do with the football when he gets it. He knows how to compete. He knows how to run routes and make things happen. The only thing they truly measure should have been meased guy is in that position. Clearly, you guys possessed an awful lot of talent. You guys dominated. You won superbowl after superbowl. There is no telling how many you could have won. In about 30 seconds it may seem like a stupid question why were you guys to good . Its not just talent. There is more to it. Why were you guys so good . I think we were good because we all grew up together. Cowboys was 115. Jimmy and jerry both came in. They fired tomorrow landry, and the whole cowboy nation was upset. We go 115. Everybody was saying, i told you so. Just like the guy about me, i told you so. Then, all of a sudden, we come together. I think we had this belief that jimmy and jerry and our Coaching Staff knew who we were doing. We building Something Special if we could keep this on, we could do this for a long time. Jimmy made sure all of our practices were just as tough as any game we played in. That was a fact. When we walked on to a football field, we didnt feel like we were going into a knockdown draggout fight. We were actually knocking people out along the way. We knew when the 3rd and 4th quarter came around, we had so much talent we were throwing at you, you couldnt hold it up. I told you so. Look at Emmitt Smiths life now. I told you so really emanates. Enjoy the manhattan experience of the rooftop lounge 30 floors above is the oasis overlooking the chrysler building. There is a lot o [music] portions of the james brown show are brought to you by geico. 15 minutes could save you 15 or more on car insurance. Visit us on geico. Com to see how much you could save. Hey, folks, im back with the pro football hall of famer himself. His records include 18,355 rushing yards, 164 touchdowns, 4,409 rushing attempts. And as troy aikman said, because you felt you could deliver, right . Yes. We talked about dreams and goals. You had no problems asking other superstars a lot of advice. Yes. Like who and why . The reason why i reached out to other superstars or people that had achieved a great deal of success is because they did it somewhere where im trying to go. There was already a trail for Michael Jordan, roger stalbach and others right back to me, magic johnson. Were all linked through sports. Their level of success and what they did to overcome challenges as well as preparation for the game itself varies. The consistent part about all of these individuals are not only were they passionate. They loved what they were do they were extremely hard workers. They were students of the game. They were guys on a Serious Mission beyond just winning games. They wanted to leave their mark on the game. They wanted to leave a legacy within the game. They did it through winning. So, understanding where they were at, those things. Most importantly, these were individuals that transitioned in the game into other areas of life that would carry them for the rest of their life which is more important than anything i was able to learn while i was in the game. Were going to here about that. These were elitelevel athletes were crossed through decades. What did you learn from Walter Payton . A lot of things, number one, his training regimen, his recovery regimen. How did he take care of his body throughout the course of the season and during the offseason, how he himself around crowds and how he handled himself after he transitioned from the game. You told him you wanted to do what . Oh, man. I told him i was so inspired, i told him i wanted to break his record. At that time, he said there was only two guys that had a chance of doing it. Eric sanders was one, and i was the next. What did that do to you . I was already motivated. That fueled me up more. I told him point blank, i dont know what barry wants, but i want to break your record. What did you learn from Michael Jordan . Mj, i said, i need to talk to you about business and other things. He said, meet me in San Francisco on this day. I went to the hotel, booked a room. We sat down at the ritz carlton and had a conversation for about two hours. He that you showed up. That and i reached out. Same thing with magic johnson, same thing with roger stalbach. Roger stalbach was great as well. The great thing about that, i didnt have to take a flight. He was right there in dallas. The nfls alltime rushing leader. Well explore those conversations more, as you said, in terms of what he is doing in the game of life which seemingly is better than what he did in the game of football. More with it all starts with a wish. The final days of wish list are here. Hurry in and sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down and a complimentary first months payment. [music] im back with emmitt smith who in 1993 became the only running back to win the nfl rushing crown, be selected nfl m. V. P. , win a superbowl ring and to be selected superbowl m. V. P. I must give credit. Thank goodness from our audience here, the o fame, you went from feeling low to kind of high. It was a new England Patriots fan who put some things in perspective. Yes. We were talking about over 4,000 carries. I wanted to know how many fumbles i had. He told you 38. Yes. On average, id say about every 116 carries or Something Like that but, he put it in context. A. P. Had 34 and 2,000 less carries. What more do you need to say . After that, my spirits rose pretty high. And you played for 15 years. Yes. Welcome back. We talked about all of the things you did. You hoped and dreamed to play in the rose bowl. Tell us about the rose bowl story. In the southeast, at that time, the sec never travelled out of the west unless it was a school, i was national Football Player of the year. I had the opportunity to go to my very first superbowl ever out on the rose bowl and watch the Denver Broncos play the new york giants. Six years later, the cowboys played in the rose bowl. I played in my very first superbowl. Magic johnson often commented as great a basketball player as he was, he wanted his second act to be better than the first. Yes. You are in the process of doing that. You are a businessman. You talked about diversifying. Give us a feel for what you are doing now. Right now, i have multiple companies. I have a Development Company called e. Smith legacy. I have a real estate construction
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